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@einen gister @anni @Hire MARTHA BJSOLOMON, OF CHAELESTOWN, ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS L. SOLOMON, OF CHARLES- TOWN, AND WILLIAM C. REEVES, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

' Letters Patent No. 76,354, dared April 7, 186s.

IMPROVEMENT IN GHILDRENS GORSETS.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known. that I, MARTHA B. SOLOMON, of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Childs Corset and Underclothes-Supporter; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 denotes a front view of it. p

Figure 2 is a side View of it, as appliedto the waist and hips ofthe body of a child:

The nature of my invention consists in making a childs corset and undcrclothes-supporter with several sets of pockets, each one to belled with bone, or its equivalent, and wicking,'making e compound lling, and also-providing said body or supporter with two rows of buttons at the waist, for the support of two or more under-garments.

A childs corset or body-band, as commonly made, simply buttons around the body, and has erm-holes. It also has strips of whalebone inserted in it from top-to bottom, both in front and rear, and the corset extends only to the hips, and not upon them or below the tops of the hips. i

In carrying out my improvement, I make the corset to extend below the waist, and down about two inches below the tops of the hip-bones," and I apply buttons to such extension of the corset, such buttons being to connect the skirts and drawers to the corset, so that their weight may be borne on and by the hips rather than by ythe waist, the tendency of the draught on the hips being to relieve the abdomen and waist from the weight, and support it by the shoulder-straps a a of the corset. This extension of the corset is shown at b, in Eg. 2,v

in 4which c denotes the tops of thehips or lower part of .the waist. The skirt and drawers, supporting buttons, are shown at Z cZ.

Instead of arrangingr the strips of whalebone so as to extend entirely from bottom to top of the corset, I terminate the pockets, e e, at about two inches therefrom, and in continuation of them, and in tub ular spaces or pockets, ffff, of less diameter than those for' receiving the whalebones', I place or run'wicking or cords, which serve' to support the breast and shoulder parts of the corset, and allow of th'e proper expansion of the chest'and play of' the shoulders and back.

The wicking-pockets ffff uboveeach pair of the whalebonestrip pockets are to be closed at their lower ends, the upper ends of the whalebone-pockets beingalsorclosed. The intervening cloth will then act as a hinge between the fillings ofthe two sets of pockets.

The dorsal buttons and button-holes are shown at g and h, there being two pairs of the stiffening bones in front as well as two`pcirs of them arranged at the back of the corset, as shown by their pockets.

Having thus described my invention,l what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is l l As a new article of manufacture, a. childs corset and underclothes-supporter, with't'wo series of bone and wicking-receptacles or pockets, combined with thebody, as set fdr-th, such body being provided, as described,with

rows of buttons for supporting skirts anddrawers, arranged and operating in the manner as shown and described.

M. B. SOLOMON.

Witnesses: r

R. H. EDuY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

